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Innovation With the Additive Advantage

Additive Manufacturing

AM delivers agility, consolidation and savings on lead-times, costs and resources. SOURCE: Northrop Grumman. In 2019, Made In Space (MIS) selected Northrop Grumman to support NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) demonstration of the autonomous robotic manufacturing and assembly platform, Archinaut.

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Automation is for Everyone

Modern Machine Shop

Source: Methods Machine Tools Star continued explaining the holistic way he looks at approaching automation. Source: NS Precision Nick and Skylar Squillace were just the right business owners to embrace this way of thinking and automation in their business. Nick said they wanted to embrace the latest technology.

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Assured success

Manufacturer's Monthly

“Put simply, when you are rapidly melting and solidifying several kilometres of welds in a additively manufactured part there are lots of things that can go wrong, leading to flaws that cause parts to fail when in service,” Jurg said. A small change in any of these could lead to a big problem,” Jurg explained.

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Assessing The Rising Input Costs Associated With The Global Pandemic

Donlouco

There is no doubt that there has been an upward trend on metal prices for some time now initially for copper and aluminium driven by the demand for EV’s globally, but this trend has accelerated hugely in recent times and migrated into the steel industry also. Fig 1: Source : Trading Economics. Fig 2: Source : Financial Times.

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Norm Fasteners Celebrating 50 Years & Three Generations

Fastener News Desk

While multi-sourcing and intensifying cooperation with our suppliers and customers all over the world, we concentrated our focus on emergency response scenarios, business sustainability management, preparation of quality and performance improvement programs for suppliers, and increasing the level of automation based operations.

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Creating Strong Digital B2B Channels at Industrial Companies

Fastener News Desk

This move is well considered, since research suggests that the number of B2B customers using digital self-service channels to research and evaluate products rose from 20 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2019 across industries. Likewise, companies should prioritize efficiency initiatives that will produce the greatest time savings.

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Territory manufacturer to displace imported insulated panel materials with $2.4 million commercialisation project

AU Manufacturing

Arctic Solutions will be manufacturing and commercialising bespoke roofing panels which would have otherwise been sourced from interstate, establishing a local supply chain, supporting Territory businesses and creating local jobs,” said Manison. to support projects worth more than $8.1 M in the Territory.